redemption : Idioms & Phrases


Equity of redemption

  • (Law), the advantage, allowed to a mortgageor, of a certain or reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, after they have been forfeited at law by the nonpayment of the sum of money due on the mortgage at the appointed time.
Webster 1913

Particular redemption

  • the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.
Webster 1913